Manu: ‘I’m just not making shots’

In the Games 4 and 5 of the first-round series against Dallas, Spurs guard Manu Ginobili has made 6 of 23 shots and totaled just 24 points.

That his two poorest games of the series are the two in which he wore a cumbersome splint across his broken nose? Just a coincidence, Ginobili says.

“I’m good,” Ginobili said after shootaround in preparation for Game 6. “My sight is fine. Of course, it’s not comfortable to play with this in my face, but it’s not the reason I’m not making shots. Not at all.”

Ginobili was shooting better than 50 percent for the series until Dirk Nowtizki’s elbow caught him in the second half of Game 3. He is 1 of 9 from 3-point range in the two games since.

Ginobili is sure he could play without the splint — “I played the second half (in Game 3), so I think I can,” he says — but doctors have recommended he to wear the splint until he gets the nose surgically repaired. That probably won’t happen until the offseason.